Lecturer: Now, while some of you might dispute the wisdom of letting the economy optimize basilisks for scariness in order to get funding,
Lecturer: In order to have no single basilisk hog all the mindspace and win the race, there need to be several in competition.
Some cartesian demons can be bargained into lying to the universe about you instead of the other way round. This is how many spells work
Masterprints: synthetic fingerprints that unlock up to 65% of phones (in theory) / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/04/14/something-you-have-2.html
Do we all need a little time simply to sit and think? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/do-we-all-need-a-little-time-simply-to-sit-and-think?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=19e2abde30-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-19e2abde30-68693017
How to Freedive Off Egypts Sinai Peninsula - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-14/how-to-freedive-off-egypts-sinai-peninsula?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
I like to imagine that when people repeat letters in txtspk, their voice is being sampled to say the same word over and over again
pseudo dice made out of a number of small quickly reconfiguring robot arms, to faithfully simulate tesseract dice
some memes have antimeme symbionts to increase their market value, for example copy-protected music
Words Have Discovered How to Make Love: 3 Poems by Surrealist Masters | Literary Hub http://lithub.com/words-have-discovered-how-to-make-love-3-poems-by-surrealist-masters/
Most notably, nobody but PCs will try to talk to you, water will stop flowing, and you can see into partially rendered buildings and bodies
To prevent an ice age, a solar mirror is shot into orbit. People report waking up in messes of computer parts, circuit traces on their skin
When you design a biosphere and carefully nerf all the obvious paths to superintelligence, but some social mammals discover it anyway
You land in the pool and its bottom falls away, edges recede to the horizon, and you float in a vast waveless expanse smelling of chlorine
George Church ascribes his visionary ideas to narcolepsy https://www.statnews.com/2017/06/08/george-church-narcolepsy/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
as he gestures, a swirl of fog stirred up by his hands solidifies into a nautilus and drops to the ground with a clunk, startling him
It‘s time to reboot the relationship between expertise and democracy | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/its-time-to-reboot-the-relationship-between-expertise-and-democracy?curator=MediaREDEF
We can teach women to code, but that just creates another problem | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/14/tech-women-code-workshops-developer-jobs
Also, they’ll build perfectly adapted machines and move all the minerals to the surface - a turnkey solution! Just swoop in and take over!
GitHub - cfenollosa/os-tutorial: How to create an OS from scratch https://github.com/cfenollosa/os-tutorial
The Creator of JavaScript Just Launched a Cryptocurrency to Improve Online Ads - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-creator-of-javascript-just-launched-a-cryptocurrency-for-online-ads
So Github decided to prefer gender bias (= sexism) to technical quality and postponed its electronconf. Awesome.
Gods talk in worlds to convey meaning, not words. Pilgrims will travel them in sequence in the hope of understanding maybe one sentence
I’d like to report a defect, this storm is broken. It’s leaking water and the light is flickering all the time
A Quick-and-Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism – Jacobite http://jacobitemag.com/2017/05/25/a-quick-and-dirty-introduction-to-accelerationism/
To many small ground dwellers, flocks of sheep are just unusually mobile forests
Welcome To The Discordian Library [D.I.S.L.I.B. – the Discordian Internet Society’s Library of Interesting Books] https://dislib.lima.zone/doku.php
Why is it So Hard to Remember What Happens in Transformers? | The Whole Plate: Episode 3 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE-6M7IbNSI
7 Ways to Maximize Misery 😞 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1mTELoj6o&t=364s
Book Club 8: Susan Napier‘s Anime from Akira to Howl’s Moving Castle - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3osCGNf-1w
There Aren’t Enough Slaughterhouses to Support the Farm-to-Table Economy - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-23/there-aren-t-enough-slaughterhouses-to-support-the-farm-to-table-economy?src=longreads
‘I’ve never seen an artform that I didn’t want to try’: Harry Giles Talks Twitter Bots http://allthesenewrelations.com/harry-giles-on-twitter-bots
using your alt to talk shit about the main so that you can take part in the gossip
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These nuke complexes double as embassies, so the end game is that every embassy sits on a nuke large enough to destroy the city it’s in
Completely serious btw. The alternative is the people at the buttons waking up and realizing that they don’t need to preserve Earth to win
Being a threat to MAD back home, every Martian settlement has a well guarded earthling nuke placed at its heart by interplanetary law
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Live so that upon dying, your soul triggers a buffer overflow in heaven and your privilege bits are set to 0(CREATOR)
+++ advice to “read old books” and binge on fossil meme reserves pinpointed as cause of observed noosphere heatup +++
another way to put it: mathematical possibility of something (existence) versus its causal connection to us (relevance)
is occam’s razor still useful here? is terseness the most desirable quality here? could it be ok to just make shit up?
[musings]↵finding that something exists doesn’t mean it has to affect us - it could be in an entirely different universe, inaccessible to us
Despite warning coloration and sirens, ambulances are stingless, even benign. It’s the more dangerous police car they mimic to be left alone
Northern mermaids are round and plump like seals, with layers of fat to keep the cold out. Way less seductive, but also way less extinct
however, these are hard to talk to, they refuse to use words and will instead wander over your screen in murmurations of pixels
I think you should issue a factory recall on these humans, they’re prone to exploding
The bubble collides with a dust mote. Divides, divides again, again, falls to the ground as a foam baby.↵unsafe
One twists, distorts, turns inside out in a complicated maneuver without popping. You probably don’t want to be that engineer. Unsafe!
In industrial magic, to test whether magical equipment is cold enough to service, you blow a few soap bubbles near it. Some outcomes:
Earth is in fact the only solid celestial body, all the other stars and planets are hollow due to budget constraints
Android “O” will finally get new, more photorealistic emojis. Actually talking to people is not recommended anyway.
◆: Humans? You don’t need to worry about them, I’ve trojan’d their junk DNA. They get uppity, I flip a switch, they become furniture.
As the housing market heats up further, it finally becomes more economical to just assume a thumb-sized android body and live in a dollhouse
In the timeline where Jesus has children, his water walking trait turns out to be heritable and his children rebuild Atlantis on the waves
One of the better externalities: Dragnet AIs and their programmers become unable to cope with humanity’s increasingly inscrutable mutterings
Expecting it to be a mushroom, you tap it with your shoe. But it shudders, starts pumping air and floats away, trailing mycelium tentacles
Since the potion spill made Pete grow a few extra arms, we’ve come to call him Centipete.
or take reverse dementia, where you wake up every morning with new memories that aren’t yours, and your own become harder and harder to find
↻↯: “Even those that don’t rain are nice. Their winds pull at my surface as if they wanted me to play with them. They never stop trying.”
We uplift animals, trees, then stones, lurk the forums of sentient rivers to learn how they experience rain
a brass worm writhes lazily where the clock’s gears used to be, another priceless artifact destroyed by chronophages
often, his ghost would stand in the river, watching fishes and driftwood swim through where his heart used to be
Proper destruction of a universe requires just as much skill as its genesis: A careful, respectful untangling of knots to leave no trace
a small household robot that does nothing but fix cable messes, likes to rest in your box of obscure cables where it has a nest
A tightrope walker is seen scaling a sunray. Soon, a rope falls from the clouds, finally allowing the king’s men to take the cloud castle.
and come mushroom season, we camp under their caps for a few weeks, listen to the rain, trade and dance with the mushes
Another reason you need oil refineries is that crude oil is full of ocean dwellers’ ghosts that you don’t want to haunt your engines
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Wizards’ beds tend to be the least magical things in their towers, full of antimagic to prevent sleepcasting fireballs and nightmares
@phil@philmcclure.duckdns.org We all just decided to ignore that… :)
@phil@philmcclure.duckdns.org We all just decided to ignore that… :)
One of the clouds is painted in gaudy colors and surrounded by small flying shapes: The airfolk’s circus, on its way to the capital.
Occasionally, a hurricane will achieve consciousness and notice its reflection in the water. Many die down, trying to smooth the surface.
The colibritross: small enough to dodge raindrops, but never touches the ground. Feeds mainly on krill, carries its chicks in its feathers.
Ghosts need to witness the exact opposite of each their memories to move on. They cluster around the healing, the feasting, happy couples,
Despite the myth, he’s a gentle fellow, kind to adventurers and would-be rescuers. Yet, only those who abandon him ever see freedom again.
If you pet them in the right places, they’d purr and open secret passages, crafty people liked to hide stuff in there↵↵It was kinda gross
“To complete the ritual, we need a really bloody book. Fortunately, I brought a map of Europe
Ever looked at a map and thought about how many million deaths drew some of those lines↵The Necronomicon is child’s play compared to this
The first plants to bloom are the clouds, covering the ground in iceflower pollen. Water fertilized in this way will later grow rainclouds.
Brain-computer interfaces able to play back thoughts can consequently cancel others, providing the basis for the Mental Noise Canceller
2050: The young sell their bodies to the old in exchange for lifelong free brain vat accommodation and Internet access
Do you consent to having your blood vessels mapped by our therapeutic nanobots and uploaded to Google Blood View™ [yes] [n
Even and odd levels of irony are always easy to distinguish. It becomes harder when you’re dealing with levels n, n+2, n+4…
@kas@enotty.dk That’s a heavy price tag. Otherwise it would be an instant buy just to test it, but i guess that’s why you ask… :)
@kas@enotty.dk That’s a heavy price tag. Otherwise it would be an instant buy just to test it, but i guess that’s why you ask… :)
@reednj@twtxt.xyz I think we are all using an client to read our timeline, but i somtimes use http://twtxt.xyz/ to read on the go.
@reednj@twtxt.xyz I think we are all using an client to read our timeline, but i somtimes use http://twtxt.xyz/ to read on the go.
One Woman’s Journey Back to Language, After an Aneurysm Silenced Her Inner Monologue ⌘ http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/what-my-stroke-taught-me
One Woman’s Journey Back to Language, After an Aneurysm Silenced Her Inner Monologue ⌘ http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/what-my-stroke-taught-me
@reednj@twtxt.xyz It would be cool if there would be a way to flag bots and just see tweets of normal users? The real™ content seems to get drowned in a sea of bots.
@reednj@twtxt.xyz It would be cool if there would be a way to flag bots and just see tweets of normal users? The real™ content seems to get drowned in a sea of bots.
relearning a little perl code to use with http://rexify.org
#txtnish supports exporting your timeline to html with –theme html since last night. See https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/timeline.html for an example.
#txtnish supports exporting your timeline to html with –theme html since last night. See https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/timeline.html for an example.
@kas@enotty.dk But with a detached sig i have to download two files for every feed and wait for parsing the twtfiles and downloading the sigs before i can display anything.
@kas@enotty.dk But with a detached sig i have to download two files for every feed and wait for parsing the twtfiles and downloading the sigs before i can display anything.
@reednj@twtxt.xyz Yeah, to make twtxt ready for a mesh network. But i just played with the idea, it’s no call for implementation… :)
@reednj@twtxt.xyz Yeah, to make twtxt ready for a mesh network. But i just played with the idea, it’s no call for implementation… :)